Technical Leadership Contracts in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 123 150
Rank change year-on-year +22 +27 -24
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 37 38 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.35% 1.18% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.30% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 25
10th Percentile £493 £493 £409
25th Percentile £550 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% +10.09% +14.74%
75th Percentile £722 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £658 £714
England median daily rate £620 £649 £600
% change year-on-year -4.43% +8.13% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £62.34
25th Percentile - - £75.14
Median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £96.23
Median % change year-on-year -49.37% -63.63% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.93 £63.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -69.95% -16.00% +87.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,379 2,929 3,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.54% 90.85% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,093 2,614
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 147 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.46 £43.96
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +17 27 £700 +13.59% 23
Cheshire - 5 £620 - 6
Cumbria - 5 £575 -
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) AWS
2 2 (5.41%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
2 2 (5.41%) Serverless
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (2.70%) iPaaS
3 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) VPN
2 10 (27.03%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.70%) DataStage
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.70%) ERwin
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) JUnit
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Legal
3 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Digital Economy
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (62.16%) Architect
2 15 (40.54%) Lead
3 13 (35.14%) Technical Architect
4 10 (27.03%) Lead Architect
5 9 (24.32%) Technical Leader
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) ForgeRock Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Systems Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Android Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Developer
8 1 (2.70%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Head of Engineering
8 1 (2.70%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) Node.js
2 2 (5.41%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
2 2 (5.41%) LDAP
2 2 (5.41%) OAuth
2 2 (5.41%) OpenID
2 2 (5.41%) React
2 2 (5.41%) REST
2 2 (5.41%) SAML
3 1 (2.70%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (2.70%) Dagger
3 1 (2.70%) Jest
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) Retrofit
3 1 (2.70%) RxJava
3 1 (2.70%) Spring
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Public Cloud
2 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
3 6 (16.22%) Mobile App
4 3 (8.11%) NHS
5 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.70%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Android
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 11 (29.73%) Apple iOS
3 10 (27.03%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Agile
2 13 (35.14%) DevOps
3 12 (32.43%) Risk Management
4 11 (29.73%) Roadmaps
5 10 (27.03%) Design Patterns
5 10 (27.03%) Mobile Device Management
5 10 (27.03%) Product Strategy
5 10 (27.03%) Strategic Roadmap
6 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
6 9 (24.32%) Microservices
7 8 (21.62%) User Experience
8 7 (18.92%) Customer Service
8 7 (18.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 7 (18.92%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (18.92%) Security Architecture
8 7 (18.92%) Threat Intelligence
8 7 (18.92%) Zero Trust
9 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (10.81%) Data Security
10 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) C#
2 2 (5.41%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.70%) PHP
3 1 (2.70%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) Scala
3 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) GRC
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
1 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Apple
1 5 (13.51%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) ForgeRock
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Embarcadero
3 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft